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title: Managing manufacturers
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/products.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

The Kentico E-commerce Solution allows you to specify a manufacturer for each [product](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/products.md). You can use this information for your internal purposes, or display it on your website. For example, you can present a link to the manufacturer's site on a product detail page in order to let your [customers](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/customers.md) find more details about the product.

## Assigning manufacturers to products

To assign a manufacturer to a product:

1. Open the **Products** application.
2. [Add a new product](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/products/adding-new-products.md) or **Edit** () an existing product.
3. In the **Manufacturer** field on the **General** tab, select a manufacturer or add a new one.

   ![Editing a product - selecting a manufacturer](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/managing-manufacturers/editing_product_selecting_manufacturer.png "Editing a product - selecting a manufacturer")
4. Click **Save**.

The system assigns the manufacturer to the product.

## Creating and editing manufacturers

To create or edit a manufacturer:

1. Open the **Manufacturers** application.
2. Click **New manufacturer** or **Edit** () an existing manufacturer.

   ![Managing manufacturers](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/managing-manufacturers/managing_manufacturers.png "Managing manufacturers")
3. Enter [manufacturer properties](#reference-manufacturer-properties).
4. Click **Save**.

The system creates a new manufacturer or edits an existing manufacturer.

> **Tip:** You can create new manufacturers also when [assigning a manufacturer](#assigning-manufacturers-to-products) to a product in the **Products** application.
>
> However, you cannot set all available manufacturer properties from there.

## Removing manufacturers

To remove a manufacturer:

1. Open the **Manufacturers** application.
2. **Delete** () a manufacturer.
3. Click **OK** in the confirmation dialog.

The system removes the manufacturers from all products where the manufacturer was assigned and then deletes the manufacturer.

## Reference – Manufacturer properties

| Display name | Specifies the name of the manufacturer displayed to users on the live site and in the administration interface.                                              |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Code name    | Specifies the name of the manufacturer used by developers in the code.<br>If you leave this field blank, it will be filled automatically.                    |
| Description  | Allows you to type a text description for the manufacturer in order to provide users with information about the manufacturer's orientation, background, etc. |
| Website      | Allows you to specify the URL of the manufacturer's website.                                                                                                 |
| Logo         | Allows you to attach a teaser, usually an image, to the manufacturer. You can also upload other types of files such as documents, and audio and video files. |
| Enabled      | Specifies whether you can use the manufacturer in your on-line store for a product.                                                                          |